Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

PhD defence

Prof. Dr. Micha Drukker is a professor of Stem Cell Biology, Models and Regenerative medicine at the Division Cell Systems and Drug Safety.

Application of technology is one of the ambitions of our vision on teaching and learning (Learning@LeidenUniversity).

The Claessen lab studies morphogenesis and phenotypic heterogeneity in filamentous actinomycetes, which are prolific antibiotic producers. We pursue several research projects that span areas of multicellular growth and development, stress-adaptation and microbial evolution. By using multidisciplinary…

Didactics

How does an embryonic stem cell decide if it becomes a heart cell or a kidney cell? That’s the question computational biologist Maria Mircea studied for her PhD research. She looked at the inside of individual cells to analyse how they change. This is what she discovered.

Frank Schaftenaar (M.Sc.) is a PhD student at the Division of Biopharmaceutics.

The LUMC has become the first institution in the Netherlands to treat a patient with an autoimmune disease using CAR T-cell therapy.

The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), the Danstem Institute from the University of Copenhagen and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne have received 300m euros from the Novo Nordisk foundation. The aim of this new international consortium is to bring stem-cell based therapies…

What is the state of open science at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs? Our faculty offers a unique environment for moving open science practices forward, while keeping a critical eye to their potential excesses.

Aminata Bicego is clinical neuropsychologist by training. She completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Liège (Belgium), which focused, among other things, on the contribution of hypnosis to chronic pain management. Passionate about the richness of human subjective experience, her research…

Erik Danen (Ph.D) is Professor of Cancer Drug Target Discovery at the Division of Drug Discovery & Safety.

Emil Arvid Wolff’s research focuses on the comparative political economy of inequality. Their current research explores the symbolic and legal boundaries of social citizenship in post-war Europe. The research forms part of the project Borders of Equality, which analyzes the relationship between the…

Book talk

Joost Beltman is assistant professor at the Division of Drug Discovery & Safety.

Tessa Vergroesen is a PhD student at the Institute of Biology Leiden. In the Mathematical Biology group she is working on the experimental side of the research projects on angiogenesis, investigating effects of modifications of the extracellular matrix on in vitro and in vivo structures of new blood…

Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Oncode have created a tracking system that can reveal how often cells have divided. This allowed them to find a yet undiscovered population of immune cells: young memory cells that behave like stem cells.…

My research is focused on the host-pathogen interplay during infection in Mycobacterium avium and comparing with better studied mycobacterial pathogens like M. tuberculosis and M. marinum. My work addresses two crucial processes in mycobacterial pathogenesis: the intracellular trafficking inside macrophages…

Our research is aimed at understanding the factors involved in creating cell wall-deficient cells. We investigate the bacterial stress responses to identify the mechanism and genomic alterations behind switching between the walled to wall-less state. With this project, we contribute towards novel treatment…

Mechanics play a larger role in blood vessel formation, and other developmental biology, than previously thought. Cells appear to respond to mechanical signals, such as pressure. Through the extracellular matrix, a network of fibrous proteins, cells can supposedly exchange those mechanical signals over…

A bacterium hiding from the immune system and picking up bits of DNA from its environment. The result: gaining new traits, such as better protection against antibiotics. Fortunately, we have not found such a damning scenario yet. However, PhD student Renée Kapteijn did find the first clues, which…

Ilze Bot wants to reduce the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases. Her research focuses on mast cells, which protect us from infections but can also make us ill.

Luca Giomi has the first results of his ERC consolidator grant. He discovered that epithelial cells move collectively but in different ways, depending on the scale you look at. It is hexatic at small scales, and becomes nematic at larger scales: it is a multiscale order. This collective movement of…

I am associate professor Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology at the Institute of Biology (IBL). I am interested in the several aspects related to the growth and development of the filamentous fungi. These include elucidation of molecular mechanisms related to the transcriptional regulation of…

Paul Wouters is Emeritus professor of scientometrics. He was Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences from January 2019 through December 2023.

Els Kindt is since september 2016 a visiting Associate Professor and Researcher at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies.

PhD defence

Serkan Aslan is a Ph.D. candidate at the Division of Drug Discovery and Safety (DDS) since November 2022. I obtained my BSc degree from Bogazici University in Molecular Biology & Genetics, then had my MSc degree from Ludwig Maximilian University in Cellular & Molecular Biology with a specialization…

Jenneke Evers has been connected to eLaw, Center for Law and Digital Technologies, as a external PhD candidate.

Researchers at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) have managed to culture human heart muscle cells on a massive scale. This is an exceptional achievement because it is very difficult to replicate heart muscle cells outside the body. Using a special technique, the researchers have now created…

During illness, the stiffness or viscosity of cells can change. Tom Evers demonstrated this by measuring such properties of human immune cells for the first time. ‘The stiffness of certain cells could be a way to make a diagnosis,’ Evers said. He defended his thesis on March 26th.